When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.Alberto Moravia
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Alberto Moravia
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia
There are many reasons for keeping a diary to make a note of facts that one considers important to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.
Alberto Moravia
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